The Slidell Town Council moved virtually $1 million into a pair of high-profile targeted traffic roundabout projects after engineers knowledgeable administration that comprehensive reconstruction of a lesser street in north Slidell wasn’t necessary.
The council previously had earmarked $2.1 million for alternative of road panels on Grafton Push, which cuts by way of the two the New State Club and Tanglewood subdivisions. But underneath nearer inspection, it was established that many of the panels keep on being in stable issue and do not require to be replaced.
Price of the Grafton venture has since been scaled again to $1.069 million, and the council reallocated $947,000 in savings to a planned roundabout at Robert and Country Club boulevards in north Slidell and yet another at U.S. 11 and Spartan Travel near the city’s southern conclude.
The item was section of the consent calendar at the council’s June 14 conference.
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